MSS 85-12
The Papers of J. Wilson Newman
Overview
Records that include correspondence, memoranda, reports, reviews, legislation, speeches, public hearings, created by J. Wilson Newman when he served on the Commission on the Bankruptcy Laws of the United States (1970-1973), the Price Commission (1971-1973) and the President’s Task Force on Improving the Prospects of Small Businesses.
Dates |
1955-1978 [Inclusive] |
|---|---|
Extents |
10.4 Linear Feet (24 boxes) |
Scope & Contents
J. Wilson Newman, who moved to Charlottesville with his wife in 1981, was president of Dun and Bradstreet, Inc., from 1952 to 1960. In the late 1960's and early 1970's, the Nixon administration appointed him to serve on the Bankruptcy Commission, the Price Commission, and the President's Task Force on Improving the Prospects of Small Business. Newman donated his personal records of this work to the Law Library in the summer of 1985. The files were in good order, and the folder headings reflect the labels on original folders or notebooks. There are 24 boxes (10.4 linear ft.) arranged by commission.
This collection was given to the Law School by J. Wilson Newman on June 24, 1985.
Collection Description
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Biographical / Historical
J. Wilson Newman graduated from Clemson College in Clemson, South Carolina, in 1931, and received a law degree from New York University in 1937.
He joined the R. G. Dun Company as a credit reporter in 1931. Dun merged with its major competitor, the John M. Bradstreet Company, in 1933, and the combined company began operating under the new name in 1939.
Mr. Newman was named a vice president in 1946, president in 1952, and chairman and chief executive in 1960. He joined Dun's finance committee when he retired in 1968, and remained a member for 12 years.
During Mr. Newman's tenure, Dun acquired several companies, including R. H. Donnelley, a publisher of the Yellow Pages and trade magazines, and Moody's Investors Service. Dun has since spun off both companies. Mr. Newman also oversaw the computerization of Dun's business databases in the early 1960's. In 1963, each company in the database was assigned an identifying number in Dun's Data Universal Numbering System. The nine-digit D.U.N.S. numbers are still used today.
Mr. Newman was a member of the United States Price Commission, which addressed price gouging, in 1971 and 1972, and of the Commission on Bankruptcy Laws from 1970 to 1973.
He died on July 8, 2003.
"J. Wilson Newman, Ex-Chief of Dun & Bradstreet Company, Dies at 93," New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/28/obituaries/28NEWM.html (accessed December 8, 2015)
| seriesPrice Commission Records | |
| fileMeeting records arranged by date with a list of topics addressed, 1971-72 | MSS 85-12, Box 1 |
| filePermanent record of meetings and actions, 1971-72 | MSS 85-12, Box 9 |
| filePublic hearings re utilities, rent and food prices, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 9 |
| fileCorrespondence, 1971-72 | MSS 85-12, Box 10 |
| fileFact sheets and staff reports re policy and goal of commission, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 10 |
| fileIssue papers by the Price Commission and outside economists, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 10 |
| fileMemoranda for the record re the agenda, 1973 | MSS 85-12, Box 10 |
| fileMiscellaneous reports, correspondence, etc, 1971-72 | MSS 85-12, Box 11 |
| fileMiscellaneous printed matter, 1971-72 | MSS 85-12, Box 11 |
| fileOperating problems, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 12 |
| filePolicy matrix, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 12 |
| fileReview of commission operations, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 12 |
| fileSpeeches, luncheons, etc, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 12 |
| fileStatements for commissioners re government employment, 1971 | MSS 85-12, Box 12 |
| seriesPrice Commission Related Documents | |
| fileAgricultural Economic Report No. 223: Price control programs, 1917-1971, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 12 |
| fileAmerican Textile Manufacturers Institute, Inc.: Proposals and recommendations for the Price Commission, 1971 | MSS 85-12, Box 12 |
| fileAutomobile industry, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 12 |
| fileBrookings Institute conference: Wage-price policy | MSS 85-12, Box 13 |
| fileCoal industry, 1971-72 | MSS 85-12, Box 13 |
| fileConsumer credit, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 13 |
| fileConsumer price index: Estimated annualized price rate of increase in the consumer price index for the fourth quarter of 1973 [preliminary], 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 13 |
| fileCost of Living Council: "The Wage-Price Freeze: Questions and Answers", 1971 | MSS 85-12, Box 13 |
| fileCost of Living Council: Transcript of press conference re food prices, 1973 | MSS 85-12, Box 13 |
| fileEconomic indicators, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 13 |
| fileEconomic stabilization program, 1971 | MSS 85-12, Box 13 |
| fileGrayson, C. Jackson, Chairman of the Price Commission: Statement before the Joint Economic Committee re Side Effects of Price Control, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 13 |
| fileGrayson, C. Jackson: Statement before the Senate Committee on Banking, 1973 | MSS 85-12, Box 13 |
| fileGrayson, C. Jackson: CBS Morning News Editorial, 1976 | MSS 85-12, Box 13 |
| fileHealth care, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 13 |
| fileIndependent Natural Gas Association, 1971 | MSS 85-12, Box 13 |
| fileInflation, consumer price index and wholesale price index, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 13 |
| fileInflation: Miscellaneous memoranda and statistics, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 13 |
| fileIRS: Retail-wholesale price monitoring program [proposed], n.d. | MSS 85-12, Box 13 |
| fileManufacturing companies with sales of 100 million or over, 1971 | MSS 85-12, Box 14 |
| fileMiscellaneous forms and White House press releases, 1971 | MSS 85-12, Box 14 |
| fileNader v. Grayson, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 14 |
| fileNational Retail Merchants Association Program Concerning the Implementation of Phase II Price Guidelines, 1971 | MSS 85-12, Box 14 |
| fileNewman: Memos and correspondence re effects of price controls on various industries and individuals, 1972-73 | MSS 85-12, Box 14 |
| fileNew York Stock Exchange: Reports on status of member firms, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 14 |
| filePay Board news releases, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 14 |
| file"The Pay Board After One Year of Operation", 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 14 |
| filePhase I and II: Summary statements, 1971 | MSS 85-12, Box 14 |
| filePhase II, 1971-72 | MSS 85-12, Box 15 |
| filePhase III, 1973 | MSS 85-12, Box 15 |
| filePiggly Wiggly Southern, Inc. v. Price Commission, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 15 |
| filePott Industries v. Price Commission, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 15 |
| filePrice control, 1971-72 | MSS 85-12, Box 15 |
| filePrice control: Price Control, Present and Future, prepared by the Office of Price Policy, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 15 |
| file"A Price Control Strategy," vols. 1-3, submitted by Robert N. Anthony, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 15 |
| file"A Price Control Strategy," vol. 4, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 16 |
| file"The Productivity Factor in Phase II" by John W. Kendrick, 1971 | MSS 85-12, Box 16 |
| fileProductivity, 1971 | MSS 85-12, Box 16 |
| fileResumes for the assistant to the chief executive officer, 1972-73 | MSS 85-12, Box 16 |
| fileSecular inflation, 1971 | MSS 85-12, Box 16 |
| fileVorando, Inc.: Request for exception from executive guidelines , 1971-72 | MSS 85-12, Box 16 |
| fileWages: Background information for the Price Commission, 1971-72 | MSS 85-12, Box 16 |
| fileWholesale price index, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 16 |
| fileYear-end statement on the economy by the President's Council of Economic Advisors, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 16 |
| seriesPresident's Task Force on Improving the Prospects of Small Business | |
| fileFinal report, 1968-69 | MSS 85-12, Box 17 |
| fileFinal report and correspondence, 1968-70 | MSS 85-12, Box 17 |
| fileTask force bulletins and internal correspondence, 1969 | MSS 85-12, Box 17 |
| fileCorrespondence, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 17 |
| fileCorrespondence: White House, government agencies, trade groups, business associations, etc, 1969-71 | MSS 85-12, Box 17 |
| fileHandbook for Small Business: A Survey of Small Business Programs of the Federal Government, 1969 | MSS 85-12, Box 18 |
| fileLegislation defining and affecting small business , 1968, n.d. | MSS 85-12, Box 18 |
| fileRecommendations for legislation, 1968-69 | MSS 85-12, Box 18 |
| fileMaterial re Newman's appearance before the Select Committee on Small Business of the U.S. Senate, 1971, 1975 | MSS 85-12, Box 18 |
| fileSource material, correspondence and news releases, 1970 | MSS 85-12, Box 18 |
| fileSpeeches and miscellaneous papers re economic prospects facing businessmen, 1955-70 | MSS 85-12, Box 19 |
| seriesBankruptcy Commission | |
| fileMaterial pertaining to the commission's composition, establishment and purpose , 1970-72 | MSS 85-12, Box 20 |
| fileMemoranda, background and issue papers re meetings and hearings, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 20 |
| filePublic hearings, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 21 |
| fileMeeting records, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 21 |
| fileMinutes of meetings, 1971-73 | MSS 85-12, Box 22 |
| fileMiscellaneous reports, correspondence, etc, 1970-74 | MSS 85-12, Box 23 |
| fileConference on the Economics of Bankruptcy, Brookings Institution, 1971 August | MSS 85-12, Box 23 |
| fileExpenses incurred by Newman while a member of the commission, 1972-73 | MSS 85-12, Box 23 |
| fileNewman's appearance before the Subcommittee on Citizens' and Shareholders' Rights and Remedies of the Senate Judiciary Committee, 1977 | MSS 85-12, Box 23 |
| fileReport by the Rand Corporation and commission memorandum re U.S. bankruptcy laws, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 24 |
| fileReports submitted to the commission on the U.S. bankruptcy laws, n.d. | MSS 85-12, Box 24 |
| seriesMiscellany | |
| fileCorrespondence concerning the Price Commission, Bankruptcy Commission and the Small Business Task Force, 1975-77 | MSS 85-12, Box 24 |
| fileSweet Briar Institute v. Button, 1966 | MSS 85-12, Box 24 |
| fileCorrespondence re National Industrial Conference Board, 1966-78 | MSS 85-12, Box 24 |
| fileSecurities and Exchange Commission v. National Student Marketing Corp, 1972 | MSS 85-12, Box 24 |
| fileMaterial concerning Newman's appearance before the SEC, 1977 | MSS 85-12, Box 24 |
| fileHistorical Working Papers on the Economic Stabilization Program, 1971 | MSS 85-12, Box 24 |